I think that is very clever indeed. I wonder if and how the whole Johanna Beckett case will be presented/solved.

i toyally agree with you itsmyworld im just going with the flow and what happens happens

I definitely agree that it would shake up the Castle-Verse, but I think it would end up with a more negative effect. Like people have said, so many shows in the past have played that storyline out. This might cause Castle to lose fans when they repeat a storyline. I love Castle so much because it's something I haven't ever seen before.

MereBelle007 said:this theory has become so common for show that starts out with a "dead" parent that i almost come to expect it.  personally, i don't think castle is the right kind of show where this would work.  i definitely think that the thing that "shakes the castle-verse" has to do with johanna's murder, but i don't think it will have to do with her actually being alive.

I so agree we have seen that play out so often and mainly in soap operas but I won't rule anything out. I still think Beckett's father and Castle go behind Beckett's back to check out the leads Castle found out about and Kate just goes nuts over it, she is worried her Dad will hit the bottle hard again and that she will crack under the old pressure of not being able to find her Mom's killer she will blame Castle as we might see her Dad in a bar and she has to go bring him home. This might cause a big rift between her and Castle as she wanted to keep this case closed. Shake the castle world might be her Dad knows more then he let on, or that they find out something her Mom was involved in and that leads to clues of others who were murdered but their deaths logged as her Mom's was.

Beckett and her father surely buried her Mom and saw her body so I doubt she is still alive ,to cliche for me.

Beckett will blame Castle she needs someone to be angry at and her Dad is still on shakey ground he is a recovering alcoholic and she won't go after him but target Castle for opening up this cans of worms.This will cause these two to fight and then Castle may end up trying in his way to comfort her and thus she pushes him away. This sets up #14 and the tension going forward with these two fighting and wanting each other but not able to get past all the new emotions each is feeling for the other or admitting they have for the other.

Two weeks until a new episode feels like ages!

nalissa2 said:

Farscapefan said:

No. I think that Kate's Mom is really dead. The fact that both Kate and her father were outside of home in the restaurant waiting for Johanna to join them only strenghtens the theory that if anybody was observing her took this opportunity to commit the murder.

Agree with MereBelle that the thing that "shakes the castle-verse" has to do with Johanna's murder, but I think that it's gonna be probably one of the questions "WHY?" getting an answer here. Perhaps we're going to find out that Kate's father was somehow involved in his wife's murder? And the sense of guilt led him to heavy drinking?

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I think it will be more along the lines of what FSF said. The whole "she's not dead" scenario will cheapen the Beckett character I feel. I hope that's not what's going to "shake" us. It would also mirror Bones too closely and I think this is something they'd want to get away from. I believe it will lead to her Dad having something to do with it, maybe not directly, but in some way and that will cause a rift between them and in turn she will "lose" both parents. I think somehow she'll react irrationally and blame Castle for whatever she uncovers…

Here is big long shot twist to the shake the Castle world. Maybe it is Kate who was the alcoholic and her Dad gave her the watch for five years being sober. Then again we have seen her drink wine in bath tub reading Castle's book. I remember season 1 at the gala charity event Beckett wanted a volka and said just get me water. (She was undercover working though) Would be a shocker to know she took the nose dive instead of her father and kept it quiet so as not to lose her job as a Det. I told you a long shot. Plus she said the watch for the life she saved and the ring for the life she lost. Unless she saved her life and her fathers and they both hit the bottle. Nope back to this isn't it.